Graduate Student
Education:
B.S., University of Oregon
M.A., London School of Economics and Political Science
Specialization:
social demography, feminist economics, queer kinship, sexual/gender minorities, poverty, welfare policy, interdisciplinarity, mixed methods
Bio:
Violet has an MSc in Gender, Policy and Inequalities from the London School of Economics (2022) and is currently a PhD student at the UC Santa Barbara Sociology Department. She has nearly a decade of experience working within the non-profit and higher education sectors, much of which has focused on marginalized communities, including homeless and previously incarcerated people, sexual assault survivors, LGBTQ youth, and trans adults. Violet is broadly interested in the creative strategies used by marginalized people to get their social, emotional, and material needs met; how the strategies travel beyond those communities; and their utopian potential for transforming existing power structures. At present, her research interests center on queer social demography, which includes investigating the relationship between minoritized sexual and gender identities and economic decision making in areas such as family, relationships, health, and work. For more information and an up to date CV, please see her website: violetcfox.com